About user guides

User guides

Below you will find a range of video user guides to help you navigate and use accounts on Cambridge Core.

Cambridge Core - librarian user guide

1.78MB

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Cambridge Core - ebooks and journals user guide

1.87MB

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Cambridge Core - researcher user guide

4.35MB

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Organisation account administrator video guides

Edit your account settings

A video guide to editing your account details; uploading an organisation logo; configuring an OpenURL.

Edit your account settings

A video guide to editing your account details; uploading an organisation logo; configuring an OpenURL.

Manage institutional access & authentication

A video guide to managing institutional access & authentication: configure Shibboleth ID[s] and generate a WAYFless URL; Request additional Remote users.

Manage institutional access & authentication

A video guide to managing institutional access & authentication: configure Shibboleth ID[s] and generate a WAYFless URL; Request additional Remote users.

Bibliographic data: MARC records

A video guide to MARC records: download MARC records for all your institution's books, for individual titles or for specific packages or orders

Bibliographic data: MARC records

A video guide to MARC records: download MARC records for all your institution's books, for individual titles or for specific packages or orders

Bibliographic data: OCLC control numbers

A video guide to OCLC control numbers: download a list of OCLC control numbers for your institution's book records, so that you can request specific MARC records from OCLC.

Bibliographic data: OCLC control numbers

A video guide to OCLC control numbers: download a list of OCLC control numbers for your institution's book records, so that you can request specific MARC records from OCLC.

Bibliographic data: KBART title lists

A video guide to KBART title lists: download KBART title lists for all your institution's content, for individual books and journals or for specific packages or orders

Bibliographic data: KBART title lists

A video guide to KBART title lists: download KBART title lists for all your institution's content, for individual books and journals or for specific packages or orders

Book self service

A video guide to book self service on Cambridge Core: launch self service mode, and purchase applicable content.

Book self service

A video guide to book self service on Cambridge Core: launch self service mode, and purchase applicable content.

Content requests

A video guide to content requests: view content requests from users at your institution; enable content request notifications

Content requests

A video guide to content requests: view content requests from users at your institution; enable content request notifications

Content holdings

A video guide to content holdings on Cambridge Core: download lists of content holdings for books and journals

Content holdings

A video guide to content holdings on Cambridge Core: download lists of content holdings for books and journals

Usage reports

A video guide to usage reports on Cambridge Core: specify a reporting period by date and download usage statistics in a range of report types.

Usage reports

A video guide to usage reports on Cambridge Core: specify a reporting period by date and download usage statistics in a range of report types.

Please note: these videos do not contain sound.

Discovery guides

We have created discovery guides for CUP collection activation in the three major discovery partner systems, available to download here:

OCLC

660.72kB

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EBSCO

1.07MB

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Ex Libris

623.81kB

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Hypothesis User Guidelines

Hypothesis is an open platform for annotation and discussion of web resources. Cambridge is partnering with Hypothesis to enable authors, editors and readers to annotate and discuss the research we publish on our platform, Cambridge Core.

You can use the Hypothesis annotation tool on Cambridge Core for the following content:

● Articles and books participating in the Annotation for Transparent Inquiry initiative
● Cambridge Elements
● Experimental Results
● The journals of the American Political Science Association: American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics, PS: Political Science and Politics, Journal of Experimental Political Science, Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics, Politics and Gender, Politics and Religion
● Stand Out of Our Light, winner of the Nine Dots Prize

Please find how to annotate and post comments here.